[prompt] Wouldn’t work in our songs, but how about our skies?

Blue Saturn, you left me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. Hmm. Nah. Let's try another song. If you believed they put a man on Saturn, man on Saturn... If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool. Uh, not really. How about these? Fly… Continue reading [prompt] Wouldn’t work in our songs, but how about our skies?

The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…

...was when, as a young teen in the mid-1970s, I watched the movie musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). I was already a daydreamer, a romantic, and a fantasy-lover with an imagination that stretched from here to the Horsehead Nebula, so the movie made me laugh and I enjoyed it ridiculously. But hovering in the back… Continue reading The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…